Actualités
Lola & Claire
FCTMN Award – Prends ça court! 2018 Lola & Claire tells the story of the unconditional love between Claire, a young woman living in a paralyzed body and Lola, her little sister. One lives in immobility and the other in movement. It’s Lola’s birthday and the young girl realizes that Claire’s days are numbered. She will do whatever it takes to free her big sister. Elisabeth Desbiens is a director based in Montreal. She studied dance and cinema. Her films have been selected in several festivals around the world, including SAPPORO in Japan, MashROME in Italy, Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois and Regard International Short Film Festival in Saguenay. She is the recipient of the SODEC / SARTEC Award for the adaptation of the poetry collection Était une bête in the screenwriting contest Cours écrire ton court.
What is important
Competing for the Cercle d’or Meilleur court métrage de l’Estrie (Best Short in the Eastern Townships award), presented by La Fabrique culturelle Through introspective questionings emerges a portrait of childhood as a time which may disappear too quickly. A short bilingual documentary.
Rouge D 4 Femme
Competing for the Cercle d’or Meilleur court métrage de l’Estrie (Best Short in the Eastern Townships award), presented by La Fabrique culturelle Josée Delorme has cerebral palsy. She communicates by fixing consecutively a color, a letter and a number on a board for each word that she wants to say. This documentary oversteps the boundaries of her disability to reach the real women inside. While being mainly director and actress, Nadia Fortin often takes the role of scriptwriter, editor and producer of her movies. She began her career by studying drama and also obtained a bachelor of social work degree. Sensitive to human beings, Nadia Fortin linked up these two assets to produce documentaries and fiction movies depicting essentially different kind of social problems.
Nostalgia
Competing for the Cercle d’or Meilleur court métrage de l’Estrie (Best Short in the Eastern Townships award), presented by La Fabrique culturelle A young woman reminisces about her days spent riding a bicycle and eating candy in a park. That sweet nostalgia.
Ponderosa
Competing for the Cercle d’or Meilleur court métrage de l’Estrie (Best Short in the Eastern Townships award), presented by La Fabrique culturelle A day in the life of Ponderosa, a young woman who cannot escape the daily exploits brought upon her by tainted, yet lustful, showgoers. What do they truly seek? Her inner particular kink. From the Eastern Townships, Julien Grégoire Péloquin is heavily inspired from his surroundings, but is always stepping outside his comfort zone to find new horizons. While he is inspired by many Filmmakers, Julien strives to create a distinct style of his own.
Ange & Ovni
Grand Prix – Festival du film court de Dinan 2018 Lili is nothing like her family: the sister is pathetic and the mother thinks her crazy. She will meet The Martian, a misfit teen. Together, they form a bond hatched from their imaginary worlds. Content producer, filmmaker and author, Sandrine Béchade graduated in Montreal from Concordia University in Film Production and the National Institute of Image and Sound, she signed documentary productions before making her short fiction film, Angel & Alien.